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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

!!!!!

Same, but for political emails that keep signing me up for without my consent, no matter how many I unsubscribe from. “How to get out of the ActBlue Machine”

Louisiana, New Mexico, Vermont, Illinois, and DC have all done this. Again, Massholes, we have to publicly embarrass @massgovernor.bsky.social into action.

Call her office right now. (617) 725-4005.

Find your legislators here and call them, too.

This is about food for a million people!

The Burial of Black Genius (a.k.a. D'Angelo Lives!) Questlove honors his friend and collaborator D'Angelo: "He was one of the last pure artists in Black music.”

Been thinking about @questlove.bsky.social ever since the day of D’s passing. Just finished watching him read this piece over on IG. Quest’s eulogy is as deeply touching, interesting & funny as I knew it would be. Love to him & everyone who loved Michael Archer. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I’ve spent almost 2hrs now thinking about going the couple of blocks to the convenience store to get bread for grilled cheese. Still can’t get out of bed. Maybe posting about it will get me up. 🥲

I was supposed to see him again at the Roots Picnic this summer but he cancelled due to his health. I was so disappointed but figured, “there’s always next time.” I’m sick about it now.

*Always* buy the ticket. If it’s someone in your top three, don’t second-guess, just go.

Been thinking about the one time I got to see D’Angelo perform live, before Black Messiah came out, at the HOB here in Boston. It wasn’t sold out & I was aghast at that. He sounded incredible (as I knew he would) & I was too intimidated to push up to the front. Don’t think I got one photo. 🖤

Fuzzy-green-robed, be-scrunchied, hot water bottle cuddled up, and my heartburn pill is kicking in. What were we ragging on our grandmas for, exactly? This rules.

All right, maybe they had a service outage then.

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Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling 10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.

They're going to overturn Obergefell

How many times did we say they wouldn't stop with trans people

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Every story quoting Trump saying this is to "rescue our nation’s capital from crime" needs to note that violent crime in D.C. is down 26%, murders are down 12%, juvenile arrests are down 20%, and ask who will get hurt from a domestic military deployment and what this "crackdown" is really about

He means Black. The city has a large and resilient and extremely longstanding Black population, and that's unacceptable to him.

Sending strength to you both.

Oh I would love to hear more about that

If you had to make a Boy Scout badge system for uncle-ing, what kinds of badges should exist? Just wondering.

We stan a hydrated, fact-manufacturing king

while chatgpt is offline i will happily step in to make up some unhinged bullshit for you

Is a global Heroku outage the corporate equivalent of a snow day? Asking for me.

Oh hell yeah.

A proven man of the people!

Oh man, why did this make me wistful?

DAMN THE [BOARD] SAVE THE EMPIRE

18F files legal challenge A statement about 18F’s appeal filed with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.

We have some news to share with you. 🥄

Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.

Kudos to the two authors of this piece, @damonberes.com & @cwarzel.bsky.social, for digging deeper here. I’m going to be thinking about this situation for a while, for better or for worse.

His story is going to serve both as a cautionary tale to young writers (some of whom may be his own students — he’s also a teacher, yikes), and a symbol of the current state of news media. We truly are in a race to the bottom.

His quotes in the article really paint a picture of someone who thought he was smarter than the system, given he’s survived in a dying business for so long. His annoyingly self-deprecating quote about maybe becoming a shoe salesman instead is probably something he’s privately wondered about before.

At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage Slop the presses.

The journalists who dug deeper on this story rightfully judge the use of AI across industries as fueling a “human-free race to the bottom” which is where we’re headed, whether you describe its output or its environmental impacts (latter of which isn’t mentioned.) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...